Just started self hosting this instance. Nothing on the docs mentioned anything about storage considerations.
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- 3 years
Considering this is going to be around a 5 user instance at most I think I’ll be good for awhile. Thanks!
- manitcor@lemmy.intai.techEnglish3 years
im running 50 users right now, subbed to A LOT of communities, seeing db growth of about 100mb per day.
- Pleonasm@programming.devEnglish3 years
That seems high when you extrapolate that to 10000 users, like a larger instance might have.
- terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.liEnglish3 years
It’s all about how many communities your user(s) subscribe to since your instance basically acts as a mirror for those.
My instance has been running for 23 days, and I am pretty much the only active local user:
7.3G pictrs 5.3G postgresedit: I may have a slight
RedditLemmy problem- Pleonasm@programming.devEnglish3 years
So if you’re the only user (let’s assume for ease) then, that represents all the updates (posts, comments, votes) from each community that you are subscribed to?
- terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.liEnglish3 years
Yeah, and I purposely subscribe to (or sometimes have a dedicated “federation helper bot” account I run subscribe to) most of the most popular communities on the most popular instances so I can get a decent sampling of what’s going on in the fediverse on the “All” feed. So I assume my storage usage is maybe a bit higher than what an “average” single-user instance may be…
- bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish3 years
lmao same here. I have a spare account that I use to sub to everything worth subbing to. I haven’t automated it yet though.
- ipkpjersi@lemmy.oneEnglish3 years
Ooh, that’s a really good idea, I need a federation helper bot/account when I start self-hosting a Lemmy instance!
- 3 years
Do you also post stuff? I mean my instance is only about an hour old, but I’ve subscribed to some communities, yet I don’t see the picture service consuming the S3 storage I’ve configured
- terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.liEnglish3 years
Lemmy caches every thumbnail of every post for like a month or something using Pictrs, so that storage will eventually hit a sort of equilibrium and start growing much more slowly (only reflecting post/thumbnail volume during the cache time).
Between profile images, community banners/icons, post images etc. there are probably a few dozen images that will be sticking around for the long haul at the moment.
- bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish3 years
Your instance only caches thumbnails, so it won’t take much space. The full images are served from the remote instance. So you basically only store whatever your users upload.
- ChickenBoo@lemmy.jnks.xyzEnglish3 years
It won’t scale linearly. A lot of those users will be subscribed to subs the instance is already replicating. It would only be new subs that would add to the growth.
- bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish3 years
And only active subs. And even then, it’s just text and tiny thumbnails.
- Dran@lemmy.worldEnglish3 years
Question if you know: does a lemmy instance have to be publically accessable to work? Like, if I make an instance on my homelab can the instance “fetch” content and serve it faster locally? Could I reply to a post and have others see it? Etc
- msinfo32@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 years
wondering this also! wouldnt it require a domain for your account though?
- HappyHam@lemm.eeEnglish3 years
Now I wonder how viable it would be to support video hosting. The answer is almost certainly “God no!”
- BigWigglyStyle@lemmynsfw.comEnglish3 years
At the end of the day the vast majority of what needs to be saved is text. If media content is embedded, the the server just has to save the path to the file not the file itself.
- myersguy@lemmy.simpl.websiteEnglish3 years
Wow, that is surprisingly not bad given the size of the instance!
- lightrush@lemmy.caEnglish3 years
Feels like this will benefit from some sort of fuzzy deduplication in the pictrs storage. I bet there are a lot of similar pics in there. E.g. if one pic or a gif is very similar to another, say just different quality or size, or compression, it should keep only one copy. It might already do this for the same files uploaded by different people as those can be compared trivially via hashing, but I doubt it does similarity based deduplication.
- 3 years
This is my small instance with way fewer users than lemmy.world.
11G pictrs 5.2G postgres- Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish3 years
Out of curiosity, how long has your instance been up? Just want to get a sense of how fast storage is increasing for you.
- Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish3 years
How has your Lemmy experience been on a self hosted instance? I’m currently using lemmy.world and it’s very error prone, would self hosting reduce those errors at the expense of anything? Does federation take long or do you find you’re getting federated content quickly enough?
- 3 years
The experience has been pretty good, to be honest. No instability, easy updates, etc. I find federated content quite quickly, because I use this script to populate the “All” feed.
- bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish3 years
You won’t get any old content, so that’s a downside. You’ll only get content after you start federating. Unless someone votes or comments on old content.
Other than that the only downside is spending time maintaining and updating it.
- 3 years
My instance has 13 users, and has been up for 2 months now:
1.5G ./pictrs 3.4G ./postgres - holycrap@lemmy.worldEnglish3 years
I really hope it doesn’t get purged if lemmy is to be a Reddit replacement. A lot of the value Reddit had was obscure knowledge and making google searches actually usable.
- Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish3 years
I think as long as the original community the post is in doesn’t purge the data, it’s fine for other instances to purge if necessary.
- punio7@lemmy.worldEnglish3 years
Exactly, when dealing with big data, you need a strategy to archive old data. You can’t just store everything in one DB. Smaller instances may not feel like keeping all the date from all the time. Even big instances should have a mechanism to move old data do different databases.
- Tugg@lemmyverse.orgEnglish3 years
Small instance with about 3 users and myself online for about 2 weeks.
pictrs 930M postgres 1.4G - key@lemmy.keychat.orgEnglish3 years
Depends. If you have a lot of users posting a lot of pictures and you use pictrs out of the box config, then a lot. If you are just running a few users with finite communities being synced then a lot less. The number is going to vary a lot as lemmy grows and gets older so hard to document realistic expectations. But docker images are probably going to take up more disk space than actual contents unless you get quite big. I just threw my PG volume into a tgz to move servers and it’s less than a gig.
- bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish3 years
The lemmy.world admin said above that their instance currently takes up less than 100GB
- holycrap@lemmy.worldEnglish3 years
Unless they changed all of the comment and post ids to bigints that’ll probably bring the site down before it runs out of storage. In defense of the lemmy developers they have been receptive to feedback, so I don’t think it’ll take long for that to be fixed if it hasn’t already.
3 yearsMy instance eats up almost 100MB everyday. It mostly depends on what your users subscribe to. It was barely growing on my first few days until I invited a couple of friends over to try it out.
- 3 years
lol lemmy died almost immediately after i posted this time to figure out what the hell caused that
- b3nsn0w@pricefield.orgEnglish3 years
lol, yeah, that would crash any instance
(jokes aside, you’ll probably need to keep it somewhat low-res, and i’d also recommend cropping it to square. my instance uses a 128x128 icon)
- Kayn@dormi.zoneEnglish3 years
My instance dormi.zone has been running for around 3½ weeks now, has a 3-digit amount of users and hosts a community with little more than 1000 subscribers. Here’s how much storage it currently takes up:
- 6.2 GiB postgres
- 4.9 GiB pictrs
In the default Ansible configuration, storage will mostly be accumulated by log files that are automatically generated by Docker and deleted whenever you restart the Docker containers.
- Philip@endlesstalk.orgEnglish3 years
After hosting my own instance with just me for ca. 2 weeks:
1.99Gi pictrs
5.21Gi postgres
- 3 years
- 3 years
It depends on how many communities you end up pulling in. Your instance will only sync with communities that a user on your instance is subscribed to.
- 3 years
I’ve had my instance running for about 1 week and I’m the only user.
2.1G pictrs
2.5G postgres
